While our family law attorneys are experienced in helping families throughout the divorce process, they are experts in the law. Child advocate Caroline Choi recently shared a few other experts you may want to consider using, and we thought we'd share her information with you. An expert can be …
Negotiate or Litigate
That's the million dollar question. Everyone going through a divorce needs to decide what process they'll take. The decision you make may have a great impact on you and on your loved ones who will ultimately feel the pain of the divorce as well-- such as your children. …
Telling Your Child He/She Needs Therapy
The simple title of this post could cause some parents anxiety. For a variety of reasons, some parents are truly terrified to even try to tell their children that they may need to see a therapist. Many children should see a therapist after their parents divorce or separate, but that's a tough thing …
Taking to Children About Divorce
HealthNewsDigest recently posted an article with tips regarding how to talk to your kids about divorce, and we thought we'd share the information here. Telling your kids that you will be splitting from your spouse is one of the hardest things a parent can do. Depending on the age of your children, …
Know Your Rights with a Restraining Order
What are restraining orders? Most people are aware that they can be issued to victims of domestic abuse, and that they can also be issued to people facing civil harassment. What you may not know is how to file restraining order, what the burden of proof, what rights are yours when the court grants …
Dealing with Change
One of the hardest parts of divorce for most people is the amount of change that will occur. Many of the stable things in your life that have been that way for potentially many years change rapidly. Change is inevitable when divorcing or separating. But here are a few tips from Cheryl Dillon, CPC, …
No More Robots!
A guest post from Dr. Karen Finn: When you got married, chances are it was a happy occasion and you had dreams of “Happily Ever After.” Leaving the idea of “Happily Ever After” and getting to the point in a marriage when divorce becomes a viable option is usually extremely painful and confusing. …
3 Steps to a Happy Divorce
People spend a lot of time talking about how tobe happy post-divorce. That includes how to move on, date again, co-parent, etc. But what about the time while you're in divorce? Unfortunately divorce can be a long process- sometimes it can take years, God forbid. Here are three easy steps Dr. Lisa …
Divorced Parents Will Fail
If you're a divorced parent, you understand the deep desires to protect your kids, ensure that they have a "normal" upbringing, and that co-parenting or single parenting won't negatively affect them. It's (or it should be) every parent's wish to make sure their kids and taken care of. Especially if …
Getting Over Your Ex
We've written before about the many different ways to get over an ex post-divorce. If you googled the idea, you could probably find 100 different ways from thousands of people who have different ideas about how to move past a messy divorce. So instead of providing a long list, we thought we'd share …